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Working With the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer

Last Update: Sep 24, 2024

Up until about a year or two ago, Exchange Server routinely enjoyed a reputation as being the most complicated product that Microsoft makes. In recent years, Exchange Server hasn’t gotten any easier, it’s just that Microsoft has created other products such as Office Communications Server that are more complicated than Exchange. Given the complexity of…

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Add the Outlook 2003 Icon Back to the Desktop

How do I add the Outlook 2003 icon back to the desktop, just like the Outlook 2000/XP used to have? If you have installed Outlook 2003, you may notice that the launch icon is no longer placed on the desktop. This change was made because of the new “clean screen” strategy, which is one of…

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Back Pressure: Moving the queue database in Exchange 2007

Last Update: Sep 24, 2024

In this article, Microsoft Exchange MVP and author Pat Richard discusses moving the queue database in Exchange 2007 to help avoid back pressure. As Pat explains, back pressure can cause mail flow to stop. Moving the database can increase server stability and keep that help desk phone from ringing. Check it out! What is back…

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Active Directory Training Labs

Last Update: Sep 17, 2024

A review of Train Signal’s Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Video Lab Training – Product Details. See more details at Train Signal’s website. Comprehensive Instructional Video. Perfect for the novice who needs a crash course in installing and setting up Active Directory in Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server and/or Windows 2003 Server or for the more experienced administrator…

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WINS Training Labs

Last Update: Sep 17, 2024

A review of Train Signal’s Windows 2000/2003 WINS Video Lab Training – Product Details. See more details at Train Signal’s website. I had always used WINS because it was easy to install and configure. It was a no brainer. Static Mappings was the extent of my configuration attempts with WINS. Didn’t think there was really much to it…

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Expanding Virtual Hard Disks with Hyper-V

One of the most frequent questions I see on forums and newsgroups that deal with virtualization is the age-old question of “I have used all the space inside a VHD hard disk. How do I expand the virtual hard disk to make room for additional data?”. Luckily for us, with Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server…

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Running More than 128 VMs on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Microsoft’s Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008, and provides a scalable, reliable, and highly available virtualization platform. Hyper-V provides a great virtualization solution for many small, medium and large organizations. Some of the capabilities of Hyper-V include x64 host and guest support, ability to run guest machines…

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How to Partition Your Hard Drive

Last Update: Dec 03, 2024

A hard drive partition can allow you to easily test out new operating systems (like Windows 7 beta) or create a simple way to separate your user data from the operating system install.  You can divide your hard drive into multiple partitions, some bootable, others not. The main reasons for having separate partitions are: to…

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Cleaning Up Exchange 2003 Remnants, Part 2

Last Update: Sep 24, 2024

In the previous article in this series, I talked about the importance of removing the routing group connectors prior to removing the last legacy Exchange Server from an organization. In this article, I want to conclude the series by showing you how to remove a routing group connector, and how to redirect the Recipient Update…

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IPv6’s Role in Windows Server 2008

Last Update: Sep 17, 2024

One of the biggest architectural changes in Windows Server 2008 is the inclusion of IPv6. IPv6 has been a part of Windows since Windows 2000, but Windows Server 2008 is the first version of Windows to enable IPv6 by default. Furthermore, The transport stack has been completely redesigned so that IPv6 and IPv4 are able…

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Download Windows’ Missing or Corrupt Legacy DLLs

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Windows Vista shipped without including a number of DLL files for legacy graphics engines like Direct3D.   When attempting to use games or 3D applications that require these DLLs, users can get a range of “required DLL missing” error messages. Additionally, we’ve noticed that there are quite a few searches on the internal Petri search engines…

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Domain Controller Virtualization Options

Last Update: Sep 17, 2024

One of the most frequent questions on virtualization forums that deal with server deployments is the question of how should one deploy their Active Directory domain controllers. Should they be deployed on stand-alone separate servers, should they be kept on separate physical servers, or should they be run inside virtual machines that are hosted on…

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